PBS

The Violin in the String Family of the Orchestra

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...
NPR

What did the beginning of time sound like? A new string quartet offers an impression

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...
Scientific American

Sound Science: Make Your Own Harmonica!

Introduction Can you name the bestselling musical instrument in the world? If you said…harmonica, you're right! The harmonica was patented in 1821 by a 16-year-old German boy. Since then it's become ...
The Columbian

Sound of Battle Ground: Luthier says the climate is ideal for making world-class stringed instruments

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...